A cool, airy and ultra-fresh nose features notes of lemon zest, mineral reduction and a wide array of floral influences. The delicious medium weight flavors possess excellent verve as well as fine delineation on the beautifully complex and lengthy finish that is quite dry but not really austere. This built-to-age effort is not so structured that it couldn’t be enjoyed after 5-ish or so years. Drinking range: 2025 - Rating: 91-93 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com(Jun 2019)

In Bond

75cl bottles (case of 6)

£3000000.00

* This is a pre-shipment/primeur offer. All orders are accepted under the TERMS of this offer which differ from the terms of the rest of the site.

The 2017 Saint-Aubin Derrières Chez Edouard Haut Densité comes from a parcel of vines planted at 30,000 vines per square inch (joking...per hectare.) It has a very intense bouquet, not unlike a Bâtard-Montrachet with touches of white peach and Nashi pear. The palate is well balanced with a fine bead of acidity, powerful and focused, great depth and length with strong salinity flooding through on the finish. Cerebral - as well as damn delicious. Drinking range: 2022 - 2035 Rating: 92-94 Neal Martin, vinous.com(Jan 2019)

This is at the top of the vineyard so steep and thinner soil and the wine does not have fruit in the middle palate of the cuvee above. It does have intensity, straight and long. It is really quite austere and mineral. For now I prefer the balance in the previous wine, which has more succulence... but this has the longer and more powerful finish.Sarah Marsh MW, The Burgundy Briefing(Dec 2018)

Olivier Lamy has built on the solid foundations his father Hubert prepared with twenty years and more of work in the vineyards. Today the Domaine has 18.5 hectares of vines - 80% are Chardonnay and 20% Pinot Noir. The vines are in several appellations - Saint-Aubin, Puligny-Montrachet, Chassagne-Montrachet and Santenay, as well as the excellent Bourgogne Blanc. The reputation of the domaine is now made, but the Saint Aubins, both red and white, remain some of the bargains of Côte d'Or, and challenge the supposed superiority of the grander village names on a regular basis, both in terms of young and mature wines.

Olivier's wine-making style and preference is to emphasise the fresh and the mineral side of his wines, and in 2016 and 2017 there was no new wood at all, and that is with the wines in 600 litre demi-muids rather that the classic Burgundy (225 litre) fût. Certainly Oliver's whites do have an arrow-like purity and intensity, and seem to age completely straight and true.

The reds are worth more than a casual mention too. Olivier has been getting some consultation help from Sylvain Pataille, and the wines have energy and bounce along with the supple tannins and ripeness.

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